02 — Toolkit

R, the shell, git, and make.

Lecturer

Date

March 1, 2026

Tools.

This module covers the core toolkit: R programming, the Unix shell, version control with git, and build automation with make.

Lecture slides

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Further resources

Shell

MIT’s “The Missing Semester”: Course Shell and Shell Tools
The Unix Workbench by Sean Kross

R

Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund’s R for Data Science (free online book)
Grant McDermott’s R basics
Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

Make

Karl Broman’s minimal make tutorial